Musician Stewart Francke focuses on helping others in new memoir

11:11 PM,
Aug. 27, 2013

A documentary DVD about Stewart Francke will be released next year.

Written by

Ben Edmonds
Detroit Free Press Special Writer

When Donna Chisholm was told she had cancer in January 2012, the suddenness and the severity of her diagnosis was terrifying to the Birmingham interior designer. "It was Stage IV pancreatic cancer," she recalls. "No cancer diagnosis is good, but coming out of the blue this was extra frightening."

It was then that Chisholm connected with Stewart Francke. Her brother had played intramural basketball with Francke years before and had worked with his sister. Donna had been vaguely aware that the Detroit singer-songwriter had successfully beaten leukemia more than a decade ago, but was ...